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it is fundamentally different from the approach of president obama. i think health care reform should expand markets, expand competition and empower consumers and patients and disempower government bureaucrats from second- guessing the decisions that are made between a patient and a doctor. what does that mean specifically? the three reforms a think would be most important would be, number one, allowing people to purchase health insurance across state lines. why is that? because that would create a true 50-state national market for low-cost catastrophic health care. part of the problem, every time politicians say that every health plan must include the following bills and whistles and they give away all the stuff, it has the inevitable effect of driving the cost of health insurance for everybody. and one of the biggest reasons so many people in texas and nationally don't have health insurance is because it is so expensive. if we had a 250-state national market with low-cost catastrophic care, that would expand access. chris so buying across state line
it is fundamentally different from the approach of president obama. i think health care reform should expand markets, expand competition and empower consumers and patients and disempower government bureaucrats from second- guessing the decisions that are made between a patient and a doctor. what does that mean specifically? the three reforms a think would be most important would be, number one, allowing people to purchase health insurance across state lines. why is that? because that would...
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it's a classic barack obama strawman. if anyone's points out the facts of his record, then they're just being negative and pessimistic about the country. the new strawman is people hoping for the decline of america. you know, it's pretty sad, but this is the closest president obama can come these days to sounding positive himself. but we have to face up to all that has gone on the past four years of the next four years can be better. [cheers and applause] ladies and gentlemen, we cannot afford to make economic failure a two-term proposition . [applause] you know, the president has been trying out sports comparisons. he compares the fourth year of his term to the fourth quarter of the basketball game. you can expect more of this because if there is one thing that the man can do, it is talk a good game. the only problem is the clock is running out and he still hasn't put any points on the board. [applause] his full case these days is basically asking us to forget what he promised four years ago and focus on his new promises
it's a classic barack obama strawman. if anyone's points out the facts of his record, then they're just being negative and pessimistic about the country. the new strawman is people hoping for the decline of america. you know, it's pretty sad, but this is the closest president obama can come these days to sounding positive himself. but we have to face up to all that has gone on the past four years of the next four years can be better. [cheers and applause] ladies and gentlemen, we cannot afford...
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why does obama have the lead he does? why is from the having difficulty, and what many people argue should be the core limping along economy and a president that has done so much as the defense and its face it popular at the beginning like the health care reform act and so long, the stimulus looked upon unfavorably by a lot of voters because even though many have felt the economy come back from cataclysmic tester it didn't exactly turn into a picture of health and voters tend to be unforgiving on things like that. what's going on? the first factor is the economy. it's not great now, but it's better than it used to be and i think we are beginning to get the sense that voters are getting credit for how much things have improved relative to a disastrous economic situation in the first year. voters can remember a few years back there some political scientist who maintained they can't remember what they had for breakfast and basically they just voted what's happening. i think we see in fact there is an influence of where it we
why does obama have the lead he does? why is from the having difficulty, and what many people argue should be the core limping along economy and a president that has done so much as the defense and its face it popular at the beginning like the health care reform act and so long, the stimulus looked upon unfavorably by a lot of voters because even though many have felt the economy come back from cataclysmic tester it didn't exactly turn into a picture of health and voters tend to be unforgiving...
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but when this comes to spending the money that we promised them so that they could obama a vital part of americaes -- so that they could become a vital part of mechanic's future, i will make sure that that money is there, so that they have the help they need for the lives we promised them i yield the floor. mr. sessions: madam president, i thank my eloquent colleague. but we don't have a budget. the law requires us to have a budget, passed decade african-american the senate democratic leader of which he is a part -- passed decades ago. the senate democratic leader of which he is a part, said we aren't going to have a budget. we've run up more debt than any time in the history of this republic. there was an agreement to limit spending. it is not a budget. it sets the limit on spending. only on discretionary spending, not on the 60% of the government otherwise that we spend money on. inadequate and insufficient. and before the ink is dry on it, we're back in here with a democratic majority advocating legislation that violates that cap. there's no dispute about it. this is the eighth tim
but when this comes to spending the money that we promised them so that they could obama a vital part of americaes -- so that they could become a vital part of mechanic's future, i will make sure that that money is there, so that they have the help they need for the lives we promised them i yield the floor. mr. sessions: madam president, i thank my eloquent colleague. but we don't have a budget. the law requires us to have a budget, passed decade african-american the senate democratic leader of...
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president obama, stop leading from behind. president obama, lead an effort. right in our military faces devastating cuts that your own secretary of defense said we'd be shooting ourselves in the head, that webbed undermining our national security for generations. we heard what's happed happening in the world. lead, be the commander in chief. your leadership has been absent. you have been awol on this critical issue and our troops and nation deserves better. the presiding officer: the senator from south carolina. mr. graham: lucky you to be president today. we live in interesting times. you could receive the nobel peace prize for not being somebody else. four years later almost after the nobel peace prize has been awarded, where do we stand as a nation? osama bin laden is dead. that's good. that's a great accomplishment. the president should take plied in that. we should all celebrate the death of that evil man. but that's a -- that's not a foreign policy. is anybody deterred from attacking america in the middle east because bin laden is dead? has anybody said
president obama, stop leading from behind. president obama, lead an effort. right in our military faces devastating cuts that your own secretary of defense said we'd be shooting ourselves in the head, that webbed undermining our national security for generations. we heard what's happed happening in the world. lead, be the commander in chief. your leadership has been absent. you have been awol on this critical issue and our troops and nation deserves better. the presiding officer: the senator...
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the obama campaign. they talked about a secret money during the ama. obama talked about super -- secret super pacs money, and allow the press coverage has also may not make distinctions in terminology and in meaning. do you think that politicians and the press corps should be held to a higher level and that? do you see hope that, you know, the fact checking of those terms will be happening or is this the definition of a word that was coined, just shifting of the debate? >> well, i think it is obviously important to distinguish between the two. in part because if you don't distinguish between the two and make a point of saying, you know, more than half the spending or however much it is is coming from groups that don't disclose their donors. the demand for disclosure is not going to grow, and we are not going to be able to get anything out of the policy-makers in terms of greater transparency in the system. >> but. >> point about a different kind of labeling. journalism, as it was covering the primaries d
the obama campaign. they talked about a secret money during the ama. obama talked about super -- secret super pacs money, and allow the press coverage has also may not make distinctions in terminology and in meaning. do you think that politicians and the press corps should be held to a higher level and that? do you see hope that, you know, the fact checking of those terms will be happening or is this the definition of a word that was coined, just shifting of the debate? >> well, i think...
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in 2008, president obama -- that was before president obama's election, the poverty rate was 13.2% and 38.8 million americans were in poverty. this week's numbers show a 16% increase in just three years. poverty rates remain stuck at its -- at its highest level since 1993. the -- i made many of the same points last week in the response to the president's weekly address, but i feel it's important to make them again. while many americans worry about their shrinking paycheck, far too many others have no paycheck at all. today, today, 23 million americans are unemployed or underemployed. many of these folks are our friends, our neighbors and family members. the undeniable truth -- the undeniable truth -- is president obama is on track to have the worst jobs record of any president since world war ii. when the president was hyping his so-called stimulus program, his economic team claimed that unemployment would not go above 8% and it would actually be below 6% by now. instead, it's been above 8% now for 43 straight months. according to last week's jobs data, unemployment dropped from 8.3% t
in 2008, president obama -- that was before president obama's election, the poverty rate was 13.2% and 38.8 million americans were in poverty. this week's numbers show a 16% increase in just three years. poverty rates remain stuck at its -- at its highest level since 1993. the -- i made many of the same points last week in the response to the president's weekly address, but i feel it's important to make them again. while many americans worry about their shrinking paycheck, far too many others...
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they blocked president obama. mitch mcconnell said my main priority is to make sure president obama is a one-term president. that's not creating jobs. the way to get jobs back in this country is to cut all ties with china, as far as the trade. and things like that. what in your closet has been made in america in the last 20 years but absolutely nothing. the republicans are not going to be elected -- is obama's going to win. look at the polls. look up what the republicans have been saying. nothing, nothing, nothing. and then here we've got wars breaking out all over in the middle east. it's almost like the end days are coming, so have a nice day. >> host: a quick required to watch and engaged as we bring you live coverage of the three upcoming presidential debates and the vice presidential debate. very quickly, wednesday october 3 from the university of denver, the focus will be domestic policy. the first presidential debate, tuesday october 16, town hall format at hofstra university in new york. the final debate w
they blocked president obama. mitch mcconnell said my main priority is to make sure president obama is a one-term president. that's not creating jobs. the way to get jobs back in this country is to cut all ties with china, as far as the trade. and things like that. what in your closet has been made in america in the last 20 years but absolutely nothing. the republicans are not going to be elected -- is obama's going to win. look at the polls. look up what the republicans have been saying....
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president obama's way worked and theirs did not. of course while we're better off than we were four years ago and better off than we would be if we had tried austerity instead of president obama's approach, which if you look at the growth of spending, pretty close to austerity, but we're obviously still not where we want to be either in terms of our economy or in terms of our deficit. so what's the right way going forward? first let's talk about deficit reduction. it's clear to me that any solution that does not include both increased revenue and decreased spending simply isn't going to work. the hole's too big for us to tax our way out or to cut our way out. we have to do betting. but the whole is in fact -- we have to do both. but the hole is in fact so big that we can't even just get out of it just by taxing and cutting. we have to grow our way out too. that's why i think we need to invest in education and in infrastructure and in innovation that means early childhood education, which has a return of investment in every study, qu
president obama's way worked and theirs did not. of course while we're better off than we were four years ago and better off than we would be if we had tried austerity instead of president obama's approach, which if you look at the growth of spending, pretty close to austerity, but we're obviously still not where we want to be either in terms of our economy or in terms of our deficit. so what's the right way going forward? first let's talk about deficit reduction. it's clear to me that any...
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brokaw mentioned that david mayors has a new biography of president obama coming out. that comes out june 19. on june 17, david marinus will be here for, to take your calls and tweets and to talk to his book. that's on june 17 here on book tv on c-span2. and that wraps up "in depth" for this month. tom brokaw is the author of six books. "the greatest generation speaks: letters and reflections," an album of memories and apollo came out in 2001. "a long way from home," 200
brokaw mentioned that david mayors has a new biography of president obama coming out. that comes out june 19. on june 17, david marinus will be here for, to take your calls and tweets and to talk to his book. that's on june 17 here on book tv on c-span2. and that wraps up "in depth" for this month. tom brokaw is the author of six books. "the greatest generation speaks: letters and reflections," an album of memories and apollo came out in 2001. "a long way from...
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brokaw mentioned that david mayors has a new biography of president obama coming out. that comes out june 19. on june 17, david marinus will be here for, to take your calls and tweets and to talk to his book. that's on
brokaw mentioned that david mayors has a new biography of president obama coming out. that comes out june 19. on june 17, david marinus will be here for, to take your calls and tweets and to talk to his book. that's on
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on obama? >> guest: one thing, and i hope this is not too annoying, if you are a true historian, the idea is that unlike current analyst who wait 30 or 40 years and get the documents that people did not see in real-time and also know how the story turned out so that you could gain ahistorical view -- i was we can do that with health care yet. i think on obama, what was your other question? >> host: bernie is now gone. he wanted to talk about presidential cowardice. >> guest: oh, yes, that's right. in my mind, the worst circle of hell should be for a president of doctors the issues of the most important time. if you're trying to think of an example, i think president buchanan would regret the top of the scale. because for four years he tried to dodge the issue of slavery. he didn't want to get involved. he didn't want to make himself unpopular. the result was that when it really came to a head in 1861, once abraham lincoln had the presidency, the conflict over slavery was four years were violent
on obama? >> guest: one thing, and i hope this is not too annoying, if you are a true historian, the idea is that unlike current analyst who wait 30 or 40 years and get the documents that people did not see in real-time and also know how the story turned out so that you could gain ahistorical view -- i was we can do that with health care yet. i think on obama, what was your other question? >> host: bernie is now gone. he wanted to talk about presidential cowardice. >> guest:...